18 November 2024 - Māori lawmakers stage haka in parliament over controversial Treaty Principles bill
Maori haka in NZ parliament to protest at bill to reinterpret founding treaty
Kathryn Armstrong (BBC, 14/11/2024)
New Zealand's parliament was brought to a temporary halt by MPs performing a haka, amid anger over a controversial bill seeking to reinterpret the country's founding treaty with Māori people.
Treaty Principles Bill: Te Pāti Māori, ACT both claim victory over response to haka in Parliament
Giles Dexter (RNZ, 18/11/2024)
Both Te Pāti Māori and the ACT Party are claiming victory over the response to a video from Thursday's Treaty Principles Bill debate that has gone viral.
Maori protesters march on New Zealand capital over contentious bill
(Reuters, 15/11/2024)
Thousands of people joined a march towards New Zealand's national capital on Friday after a contentious bill that would reinterpret the country's 184-year-old founding document passed its first hurdle in parliament.
The Treaty Principles Bill is already straining social cohesion – a referendum could be worse
Alexander Gillespie and Claire Breen (The Conversation, 13/11/2024)
With the protest hikoi from the far north moving through Auckland on its way to Wellington, it might be said ACT leader David Seymour has been granted his wish of generating an “important national conversation about the place of the Treaty in our constitutional arrangements”.
Māori Flag. Source: Wikipedia, Public Domain.